I have used smartphones with removable and non-removable batteries. I found that removable battery had an advantage of easily fixing minor glitches like frozen screen where by I feel stuck when such a problem occurs in my current phone with non-removable battery. What are the reasons that nowadays, mobile phones come with fixed batteries?
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discuss Removable vs non-removable mobile phone batteries?
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I think most phones are made without the ability to remove batteries so that they have a point where they can break down and require you to buy another one. Otherwise, you might be able to keep using the same phone for year and years to come and never need to buy a new one which is bad for phone manufacturing companies.
As long as it's among the new smartphone's brands, all the batteries are no longer removable unless a tech person need to work on the phone. Apart from this, the battery can't be removed to charge it.
Like removing and reinserting a battery, a hard power off (holding the power button) typically fixes these glitches for me.
I think it might be a mix of two things.
One of which you mentioned is that you are required to buy another one or have it serviced to replace the battery, both costing more money than simply replacing the battery on your own.
The other is that if you have a removable battery, the battery compartment has to be protected, or else there are points of contact that, if water got in there and touched 2 or more pins of contact between the battery and phone, could result in a fried phone (not entirely sure).
So, I think the major tradeoff was that a phone could be made smaller/slimmer by protecting all of the internals with one seal as opposed to protecting the phone with 2 seals.
The advantage of a removable battery is that if the phone hangs for a long time, you can remove the battery to restart it. I don't understand how that would work with a non removable battery. That's why I always buy phones that have removable batteries.
I wonder if anyone tries to remove the battery from non-removal phones anyway and modify it?
I remember when people were modifying vape pen batteries a few years back. One had a violent reaction and exploded as the guy vaped from it, blew most of his mouth from his face.
I rarely put phones to my ears anymore but it would still blow my fingers off and I kind of need them.
I discovered that the majority of the smartphone manufacturing companies have shifted to non-removable batteries and I think it is due to the sleek designs. They want more premium designs that will make the phones even more comfortable to hold.
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Captain Cackle
I always remember that Nokia, many years ago, had a removable battery, which I thought was great, you wouldn't need to replace the whole phone, just the battery if anything happened and if your phone froze, pop the battery off and it will hard restart.
I think the reason that phones come with fixed batteries now is that all phone manufacturers see it as, well, if the phone starts playing up and you struggle to hard restart not being able to remove the battery, eventually the phone owner is going to get frustrated and buy a new phone. It is their way of keeping sales going.
I think the reason that phones come with fixed batteries now is that all phone manufacturers see it as, well, if the phone starts playing up and you struggle to hard restart not being able to remove the battery, eventually the phone owner is going to get frustrated and buy a new phone. It is their way of keeping sales going.
